First Jet Airliner
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First Jet Airliner
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Author : Timothy Walker
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
First Jet Airliner written by Timothy Walker and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Comet (Jet transports) categories.
This work provides a history of the first civil jet transport to be designed, built and to enter world service. It includes a close-up-detail section for modellers, and specially commissioned colour profiles introduce each chapter.
Comet The World S First Jet Airliner
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Author : Graham Simons
language : en
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Release Date : 2013-11-14
Comet The World S First Jet Airliner written by Graham Simons and has been published by Pen and Sword this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-14 with History categories.
This new volume from the respected and well-regarded aviation historian and author Graham Simons is sure to appeal to all aviation enthusiasts, including as it does a wide array of historical sources and archival information drawn together into one consolidated volume the closest to a definitive study of the craft than any produced before. ??Extensively illustrated throughout, the book features details lifted directly from enquiry and salvage reports, much of which has never been published before and offers a unique insight into the failures and tragedies that blighted the early days of development, laying down lessons that were ultimately to benefit later designs. As part of his research into the book, the author met and interviewed Harry Povey, the De Havilland Production Manager and John Cunningham, the Comet test pilot who would be the first to experience flight at the helms of the iconic craft. Both of these first hand accounts are relayed in the book, adding a deeper sense of authenticity and a more personalised account of proceedings than facts and reports alone are able to achieve.??Attention is also paid to the derivative Nimrod design, and the book features an interview that the author conducted with the aircraft commander of the last ever Nimrod operational flight. Interviews of this kind are supplemented by the author's own narrative of proceedings, setting personal experience within historical context and exploring the themes and historical topics that the interviews evoke.
De Havilland Comet
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Author : Colin Higgs
language : en
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
Release Date : 2018-11-30
De Havilland Comet written by Colin Higgs and has been published by Casemate Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-30 with Transportation categories.
“A first-rate review of the history of the world's first commercial jetliner, its early difficulties and their rectification” (Firetrench). The world got a little smaller in July 1949 when the first jet-powered airliner took to the skies barely four years after the end of the Second World War. Not only was the de Havilland Comet 1 was a lot faster than previous airliners, but it could also fly higher and further. It was packed with new technology but, perhaps most importantly for those early passengers, it was a quiet, luxurious, and even pleasant experience, something that could never be said for the noisy piston-engine aircraft that came before. The Comet’s leadership in jet travel for the future was assured until aircraft began crashing. The first ones were put down to pilot error but two disastrous events in 1954 grounded the fleet and Britain’s advantage over the rest of the world was lost. Boeing caught up with its ubiquitous 707 and the Comet was destined to become but a memory. However, rising from the ashes came a new Comet—one that was bigger and more powerful than before and designed for completely different roles. Where the first Comets had provided an expensive and plush way to travel for the rich few, the new Comet 4s carried more passengers to a multitude of destinations inevitably becoming key carriers for the early package holidaymakers. At the same time, they became vital strategic transports for the RAF as the British Empire receded. This book tells the full story of the world’s first jet-powered airliner, from its remarkable beginnings, through its early flight trials programme to its entry into service. The type’s military career is also covered, as is its construction; also included in this volume are details of the numerous variants produced and those still surviving as exhibits today.
D H Comet
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Author : J. Graham Cowell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999*
D H Comet written by J. Graham Cowell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999* with Comet (Jet transports) categories.
Jet Age
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Author : Sam Howe Verhovek
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2010-10-14
Jet Age written by Sam Howe Verhovek and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10-14 with History categories.
The captivating story of the titans, engineers, and pilots who raced to design a safe and lucrative passenger jet. In Jet Age, journalist Sam Howe Verhovek explores the advent of the first generation of jet airliners and the people who designed, built, and flew them. The path to jet travel was triumphal and amazingly rapid-less than fifty years after the Wright Brothers' first flight at Kitty Hawk, Great Britain led the world with the first commercial jet plane service. Yet the pioneering British Comet was cursed with a tragic, mysterious flaw, and an upstart Seattle company put a new competitor in the sky: the Boeing 707 Jet Stratoliner. Jet Age vividly recreates the race between two nations, two global airlines, and two rival teams of brilliant engineers for bragging rights to the first jet service across the Atlantic Ocean in 1958. At the center of this story are great minds and courageous souls, including Sir Geoffrey de Havilland, who spearheaded the development of the Comet, even as two of his sons lost their lives flying earlier models of his aircraft; Sir Arnold Hall, the brilliant British aerodynamicist tasked with uncovering the Comet's fatal flaw; Bill Allen, Boeing's deceptively mild-mannered president; and Alvin "Tex" Johnston, Boeing's swashbuckling but supremely skilled test pilot. The extraordinary airplanes themselves emerge as characters in the drama. As the Comet and the Boeing 707 go head-to-head, flying twice as fast and high as the propeller planes that preceded them, the book captures the electrifying spirit of an era: the Jet Age. In the spirit of Stephen Ambrose's Nothing Like It in the World, Verhovek's Jet Age offers a gorgeous rendering of an exciting age and fascinating technology that permanently changed our conception of distance and time, of a triumph of engineering and design, and of a company that took a huge gamble and won.
De Havilland Comet
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Author : J. G. Cowell
language : en
Publisher:
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De Havilland Comet
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Author : R. E. G. Davies
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
De Havilland Comet written by R. E. G. Davies and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Comet (Jet transports) categories.
July 27th 1999 is the 50th anniversary of the first flight of the de Havilland DH 106 Comet airliner. This tribute volume marks the inauguration of the commercial Jet Age by the British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC).
British Jet Airliners
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
British Jet Airliners written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Jet planes categories.
Jet Pioneers
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Author : Tim Kershaw
language : en
Publisher: The History Press
Release Date : 2004-03-18
Jet Pioneers written by Tim Kershaw and has been published by The History Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-03-18 with Transportation categories.
In April 1941 Britain's first jet left the ground at a grass airfield 4 miles from Gloucester Cathedral. It was the start of a revolution in air travel, military and civilian. During the 1940s Britain's first-ever jet aircraft, the world's first jet fighter in squadron service and the first jet to hold the world air-speed record were all designed, built and flown in the Gloucester and Cheltenham area. The story of Frank Whittle's invention and dogged development of the jet engine is well known. But the account of how his invention was put into the air has never been fully told. This book tells the story of how the men and women of north Gloucestershire made Whittle's engine fly.
The Incredible Story Of Jets
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Author : Greg Roza
language : en
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Release Date : 2003-12-15
The Incredible Story Of Jets written by Greg Roza and has been published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-12-15 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Hans von Ohain of Germany built the first working jet engine in 1937. This book describes some of the improvements made on jet planes since then, including the design of the Concorde and super jumbo jets such as the Airbus A380. Students will be introduced to the forces of flightlift, thrust, drag, and weightand to the movable parts of jets, including flaps, ailerons, and rudders and how they work.
